Who acts: expenditure, school, Income, your, weekly expenditure, Her · What happens: spend, amount, use up, be, expend, give · To what, where: money, energy, 500 dollars, books, savings, 6 dollars
«expenditure» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 7 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: expenditure in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Usage: formal — kept apart, not parsed.
The total amount of money spent.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
The
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
3 amount
det
2
total
total
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 amount
amod
3
amount
amount
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
4
of
of
ADP
_
5 money
case
5
money
money
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 amount
nmod
6
spent
spend
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part
5 money
acl
7
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 amount
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
spend
participle
money not said here
vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2
amount
money
nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Meaning 2
Usage: formal — kept apart, not parsed.
Using up energy, time or effort.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Using
use
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
root
root
2
up
up
ADP
_
1 Using
compound:prt
3
energy
energy
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Using
obj
4
,
,
PUNCT
_
5 time
punct
5
time
time
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 energy
conj
6
or
or
CCONJ
_
7 effort
cc
7
effort
effort
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 energy
conj
8
.
.
PUNCT
_
1 Using
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
use up
gerund
energy and time or effort
vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient
Example 1
The school's expenditure on books was 500 dollars.
vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expenditure=Topic
2
costa condition, not said to happen
present
4 tickets
12 dollars each
vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme dollar=Value
Example 7
Sometimes the fair Persian consented to appear at these festivities, but she disapproved of this lavish expenditure, and did not scruple to warn Noureddin of the probable consequences.
The tree, 28 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2
appear
to-infinitive
the fair Persian not said here
this festivities
vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at festivity=Location
3
disapprove
past
Persian
of this lavish expenditure
vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4
notscruple
past · do-support
Persian not said here
tree rules
5
warnspeech: warn
to-infinitive
Persian not said here
Noureddin of the probable consequences
vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent noureddin=Recipient
Text: the school dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.